Hryhoriy Shykyriavyi was a six-year-old kid from a poor family in 1932-1933, when his village was hit by the Holodomor, the genocidal famine of Ukrainians by the Soviet authorities, which killed millions. He recollects mass deaths of his fellow villagers and how his family survived off inedible horse sorel and some grains his father managed to find on a state-owned cropped field risking his life threatened by the Soviet draconian laws. His story is one of many eyewitness accounts gathered in the expeditions of the Holodomor Museum.
Holodomor
Soviet history
EuroMaidan Press: ‘My village once saw 12 people die of hunger in one day’, says Holodomor witness
This archive photo, released by the SSU SSA (The SSU Sectoral State Archive), shows representatives of the committee for the confiscation of grain, Odesa Oblast, 1932.
